Bottleneck in Bed

The President's eyes, ears, nose and legs went to bed last week. After a long weekend of conferences with the President at Hyde Park, Harry Hopkins was taken directly from Washington's Union Station to the Naval Hospital, and bedded there for a "check-up."

Hopkins, a much-suffering man, chronically ill with vague internal maladies which have been diagnosed as everything from gastric ulcers to nervous stomach, has been in good health (for him) for more than a year, suffered a recent relapse only when he lost his pills in Moscow. The importance of Hopkins' illness was in his position as a Washington influence. If a project has his approval, it cuts through Army, Navy and defense red tape, with absolute priority. If it has not his approval, dust gathers on it, important people forget it, its backers gradually fade away. When Harry Hopkins went to bed last week, many & many a defense project crawled in with him and lay down.

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